BOSTON MASSACRE 2013

Tsarnaev family received $100,000 in benefits

Taxpayer-funded bonanza of cash, food stamps, Section 8 housing

Published: 04/30/2013 at 8:12 AM

(BOSTON HERALD) The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.

“The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning,” said a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee today.

The state has handed over more than 500 documents to the 11-member House Post Audit and Oversight Committee, which today met for the first time and plans to call in officials from the Department of Transitional Assistance to testify.